503FBDEA-F99B-4169-8C14-306BAAB81FAD
| ID | 503FBDEA-F99B-4169-8C14-306BAAB81FAD |
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| Titlecode | R00307 |
| Title Name | Gold: from Poem Symphonies Set I (POP- Sub X509007) |
| Marketing Copy | Can be performed alone or as part of Don Freund's Poem Symphonies Set I, a cycle of works, each one based on the poetry of a different poet. Gold was inspired by the poem of the same name by Donald Hall |
| Instrumentation | String Orchestra |
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| Program Notes | Gold draws on the poem of the same name by the poet Donald Hall, which was written in 1969: Pale gold of the walls, gold of the centres of daisies, yellow roses pressing from a clear bowl. All day we lay on the bed, my hand stroking the deep gold of your thighs and your back. We slept and woke entering the golden room together, lay down in it breathing quickly, then slowly again, caressing and dozing, your hand sleepily touching my hair now. We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years, shining and whole. From the radiant words of this poem, Freund has fashioned a luminescent work, in which the colour of the string orchestra is probed fully. Dominated by a pulsing quaver movement, the work offers a number of meditations on the cantando theme heard at its outset. Texture and sonority are crucial features of this work, especially in the final pages of the piece where the orchestra is pared down to soli, and the crystalline colour of harmonics is allowed to predominate. |
| Title Brand | 2 |
| Year Composed | 1990 |
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| Duration | 5 |
| Ensemble Size | 13 |
| Date Created | 2008-10-31 00:00:00.000000 |
| Date Updated | 2023-06-25 05:39:42 |
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| Premier Performance Memo | -University of Melbourne/ Robert Casteels. 14 Aug 98. -Western Illinois University/ Harold Levin. 25 Mar 96. -Memphis State University Orchestra. Spring 1992. |
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| Review | (not set) |
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| Title Category | 7 |
| Title Movements | (not set) |
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| Set Series ID | (not set) |
| Title Instrument Category Text | String Orchestra |
| Title Sub Category Text | (not set) |
| Title Sub Category | 31 |
| Title Instrument Header | 42 |
| Title Grade Text | (not set) |
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